Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League is the United States' premier civil rights and human relations agency that fights against anti-Semitism and bigotry and for democracy and civil rights. Founded in October 1913, it sought to establish justice and fair treatment for all citizens in the USA.

History
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith was founded in October 1913 in New York City to stop the defamation of American Jews, and its creation came at the same time as anti-Jewish violence. The ADL's goal was to fight anti-Semitism in addition to any racism or bigotry, while advocating democracy and civil rights. They were enemies of the Ku Klux Klan, Nazism, the anti-Semitic automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, Christian Front leader Charles Coughlin, the Christian Identity movement, German-American Bund, neo-Nazism, white power skinheads, and the "American militia movement". The ADL also held anti-Zionism and opposition to the existence of Israel as forms of anti-Semitism, and in 2013 they criticized United States Secretary of State nominee Michael Kern for editing a 1978 college newspaper article that called for Israel to end their "illegal occupation" of Gaza Strip and West Bank.